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| Daniel S WeissSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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The psychological risks of Vietnam: the NVVRS perspectiveWilliam E Schlenger
Abt Associates Inc, Durham, NC 27703, USA
J Trauma Stress 20:467-79. 2007..However, they found that McNally's commentary misrepresented the history and context of the NVVRS, and then misinterpreted Dohrenwend et al.'s findings and their importance...
Frequency and severity approaches to indexing exposure to trauma: the Critical Incident History Questionnaire for police officersDaniel S Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Trauma Stress 23:734-43. 2010..Because no index summarizing cumulative exposure to trauma had superior validity, our findings suggest that precision is not increased if frequency is weighted by severity...- Conundrums in a theory of disturbed dreaming: comment on Levin and Nielsen (2007)Daniel S Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Psychol Bull 133:529-32; author reply 533-4. 2007..Definitional or phenomenological presentations are not always consistent, making it difficult to determine the real nature of the variables being offered and to get a clear sense of the boundaries of the model... - The impact of personal threat on police officers' responses to critical incident stressorsShannon E McCaslin
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:591-7. 2006..Results suggest that greater personal threat during a CI may place an officer at greater risk for subsequent distress... 
Patterns and predictors of alcohol use in male and female urban police officersJames F Ballenger
Mental Health Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Am J Addict 20:21-9. 2011..Greater psychiatric symptoms were related to adverse consequences from alcohol use. There was a noteworthy gender by work stress interaction: greater routine work stress related to lower current alcohol use in female officers. ..- Cultural differences in crewmembers and mission control personnel during two space station programsJennifer E Boyd
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco VAMC 116A, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 1545, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 80:532-40. 2009..We examine three cultural contrasts: national (American vs. Russian); occupational (crewmembers vs. mission control personnel); and organizational [Mir space station vs. International Space Station (ISS)]... - Predictors of posttraumatic stress in police and other first respondersCharles R Marmar
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement St 116 P, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1071:1-18. 2006..Next steps in this line of research will be to test this model prospectively in a sample of 400 police academy recruits assessed during training and currently being followed for the first 2 years of police service... - Critical incident exposure and sleep quality in police officersThomas C Neylan
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Psychosom Med 64:345-52. 2002..We examined the effects of critical incident exposure (trauma exposure) and routine (nontraumatic) work environment stressors on sleep quality after controlling for the effects of work shift schedule... - Crewmember and mission control personnel interactions during International Space Station missionsNick A Kanas
University of California San Francisco and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 116A, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 78:601-7. 2007..Three of these issues (time effects, displacement, leader role) were studied during a series of long-duration missions to the International Space Station (ISS)... - Alexithymia and PTSD symptoms in urban police officers: cross-sectional and prospective findingsShannon E McCaslin
Psychiatry Service, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, CA 94121, USA
J Trauma Stress 19:361-73. 2006..In prospective analyses, alexithymia scores significantly predicted 9/11-related PTSD symptom severity over and above pre-9/11 PTSD symptoms... - Predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and symptoms in adults: a meta-analysisEmily J Ozer
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0984, USA
Psychol Bull 129:52-73. 2003..17) and peritraumatic dissociation the largest (weighted r = .35). The results suggest that peritraumatic psychological processes, not prior characteristics, are the strongest predictors of PTSD... - Temporal instability of auditory and visual event-related potentials in posttraumatic stress disorderThomas C Neylan
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
Biol Psychiatry 53:216-25. 2003..Measures of variability about the group mean appear to be more informative about the cognitive electrophysiology of PTSD than measures of central tendency... - Attention, learning, and memory in posttraumatic stress disorderThomas C Neylan
Mental Health Service, San Francisco DVA Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
J Trauma Stress 17:41-6. 2004..In this study, reduced hippocampal NAA did not appear to be associated with impaired declarative memory... - Lessons learned from Shuttle/Mir: psychosocial countermeasuresNick Kanas
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco UCSF, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:607-11. 2002..During future long-duration space missions, countermeasures need to be developed to deal with psychosocial issues that might impact negatively on crewmember performance and well-being... - The role of childhood trauma in differences in affective instability in those with personality disordersMarianne Goodman
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
CNS Spectr 8:763-70. 2003..10) and Affective Intensity Measure (r=.15) total scores. CONCLUSION: This suggests that nontrauma-related factors may be more predominant in affective dyscontrol in individuals with borderline personality disorder... - The relationship between peritraumatic distress and peritraumatic dissociation: an examination of two competing modelsDeniz Fikretoglu
McGill University, Douglas Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:853-8. 2006.... - Peritraumatic fear, helplessness and horror and peritraumatic dissociation: do physical and cognitive symptoms of panic mediate the relationship between the two?Deniz Fikretoglu
Douglas Hospital Research Center, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Behav Res Ther 45:39-47. 2007..The results also raise the possibility, however, that the mediational role of panic may be further moderated by additional variables...